People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes like this go unchecked, who can believe anything they see on the Internet? What good would the Internet be then? If the people who control Internet web sites do not do anything, is that not an open invitation for government to step in? And does anybody want politicians to control what can go on the Internet?

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.